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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

naturenorth.com

NatureNorth.com - Manitoba's online nature magazine

Page Load Speed

916 ms in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

508 ms

Page Rendered

212 ms

About Website

Visit naturenorth.com now to see the best up-to-date Nature North content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about naturenorth.com

Nature North Zine is a Manitoba based on-line nature magazine dedicated to celebrating the biodiversity of this province, and of all North America.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naturenorth.com page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 720 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naturenorth.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,460 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naturenorth.com

196 ms

nn.css

43 ms

2007_Top_Front.jpg

135 ms

spacer.gif

103 ms

Site_Index.jpg

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Naturenorth.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (224 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

546.1 kB

After Optimization

455.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Naturenorth.com main page is 546.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 390.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 6.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.8 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 390.2 kB
  • After minification 345.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Nature North needs image optimization as it can save up to 44.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 134.1 kB
  • After minification 121.9 kB
  • After compression 103.5 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 30.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 147 B

  • Original 769 B
  • After minification 769 B
  • After compression 622 B

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Naturenorth.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nature North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

naturenorth.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

naturenorth.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

naturenorth.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naturenorth.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Naturenorth.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nature North. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: